Improvement in lock-bolts and straps for trunks



R. HILTON.-

L-ock-Bolts and Straps for Trunks.

Patented March 17, 1874.

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NITE STATES TENT FFICE.

ROBERT HILTON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,700, dated March17, 1874; application filed September 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT HILTON, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio,have invented a new and useful Combined Lock-Bolt and Strap for Trunks,of which the following is a specification:

My invention comprises a belt, which occupies permanently a socket onthe lid, and is ca iable of being inserted in a corresponding socket onthe body of the trunk. The said bolt is perforated near its lower end toreceive a padlock, and near its upper end to receive a ring. A leatherstrap, having one end attached to the trunk-body below the padlock, is,after looking, passed up in front of the lock, and, being rove throughthe ring, is brought down and buckled to the body, so as to afford anadditional means of securing the closure of the trunk, and at the sametime serving to protect the padlock from injury from the weather or fromthe contact of hard bodies. \Vhen the trunk is unlocked, the ringaffords a convenient handle for lifting the lid.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a trunk provided with two of myfastenings, both of which are shown locked, and one of which is alsostrapped and buckled. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the fasteningin its locked and buckled condition, the contiguous portions of the bodyand lid being in section. Fig. 3 shows the same parts in the unlockedcondition, the sockets being in section. Fig. 4: is a transverse sectionof bolt and one of the sockets.

A and B represent, respectively, the body and lid of a travelers trunk.bis the customary sheet-metal valance. Itiveted to the valance is asocket, G, and in a line therewith there is riveted to the body asimilar socket, I). Permanently retained in the socket 0, while at thesame time allowed a slight longitudinal play therein, and to be passeddown through and project below the socket D, is a bolt, E, looselycoupled in whose upper part is a ring or link, F. The lower portion ofsaid bolt has an orifice, e, to receive the bow or shackle of a padlock,Gr. Fastened to the body, a suliicient distance below the lower socketto be clear of the padlock when in position, is a buckle, H, and one endof a strap, I, which latter, after the trunk has been locked, may berove through the ring F, and its free extremity engaged in the buckle H,so as to secure the lid by strap as well as lock, and to protect thelatter from injury by'collision or the entrance of moisture; or the lidmay be fastened by the strap and buckle, without the lock, for temporarysecurity, or in case the lock should be mislaid. The belt E is providedwith a shoulder, J, which is adapted to impinge against aledge orflange, K, that pro jects inwardly from the upper socket O. Thisprovision of shoulder and flange prevents the bolt being withdrawn fromsaid socket when the lid of the trunk is raised with the ring F, asclearly shown in Fig. 3.

I claim herein as new and of my invention- The arrangement, in atravelers trunk, of bolt E c J, link F, sockets O and D, and strap andbuckle H I, for the purpose explained.

In testimony of which invention, Ihereunto set my hand.

ROBT. HILTON. Attest:

Gno. H. KNIGHT, J imns H. LAYMAN.

